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Germany still struggling with its colonial period

01-03-2020 08:53 AM

"Vergangenheitsbewältigung" is the term German government officials use to describe German diplomat Ruprecht Polenz's mission. It means "to overcome the past." At issue is what happened between 1904 and 1908, when German colonial troops killed an estimated 80,000 people in southwest Africa, in what is now Namibia.


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